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The Sea-Maiden: Dowell O'Reill

The poem describes a sea maiden with flowing hair kissed by breezes, a laugh like the foam of the ocean, and a gentle bosom that ebbs and swells with the tide. The narrator is in love with her divine love and beauty, which inspires his poem like seaweed torn from a stormy heart.

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The Sea-Maiden: Dowell O'Reill

The poem describes a sea maiden with flowing hair kissed by breezes, a laugh like the foam of the ocean, and a gentle bosom that ebbs and swells with the tide. The narrator is in love with her divine love and beauty, which inspires his poem like seaweed torn from a stormy heart.

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The Sea-Maiden

Like summer waves on sands of snow, Soft ringlets clasp her neck and brow, And wandering breezes kiss away A threaded light of glimmering spray, That drifts and floats and softly flies In a golden mist about her eyes. Her laugh is fresh as foam that springs Through tumbling shells and shining things, And where the gleaming margin dries Is heard the music of her sighs. Her gentle bosom ebbs and swells With the tide of life that deeply wells From a throbbing heart that loves to break In the tempest of love for love's sweet sake. O, the fragrance of earth, and the song of the sea, And the light of the heavens, are only three Of the thousand glories that Love can trace, In her life, and her soul, and her beautiful face. This tangled weed of poesy, Torn from the heart of a stormy sea, I fling upon the love divine Of her, who fills this heart of mine.

Dowell O'Reill

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